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Kenner,AHistoryofNewMexico- PlainsIndian Relations (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1969), p. 55.
59. LeonClaireMetz,FortBliss,AnIllustrated
History (El Paso: Mangan Books, 1981), p. 8 (hereafter cited as Metz, Fort Bliss); Time-Life Editors, The Spanish West (New York: Time-Life Books, 1976), pp. 51-52 (hereafter cited as Time- Life, Spanish West). Of the 2,800 Spaniards who had lived among the Pueblo Indians, nearly 2,000 had reached El Paso del Norte. Paul Horgan, Great River, the Rio Grande in North American History, Vol.1(NewYork:Rinehart&Company,Inc.,1954), p. 292, claims that 2,500 fled but only 1,946 were recorded on the rolls taken when they reached El Paso del Norte, because hundreds had already es- caped into the interior of Mexico, undetected and uncounted.
60. Christianson and Kottlowski, Mosaic , p. 8; Warren A. Beck, New Mexico - A History of Four Centuries (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971), p. 35.
61. JohnPhilipWilson,HistoricalProfileofSouth- western New Mexico, Report No. 21 (Las Cruces: New Mexico State University, 1975), p. 7 (hereafter cited as Wilson, Historical Profile).
62. Ogle, “Federal Control,” p. 336.
63. Wilson, Historical Profile, pp. 7-8.
64. Time-Life, Spanish West, pp. 54-55.
65. Christianson and Kottlowski, Mosaic, pp. 8-9. 66. John L. Kessell, “Campaigning on the Upper
Gila, 1756,” New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 46 (Apr., 1971), p. 150 (hereafter cited as Kessell, “Upper Gila”).
67. Marc Simmons, “Spanish Attempts to Open a New Mexico - Sonora Road,” Arizona and the West, Vol. 17 (Spring, 1975), p. 10 (hereafter cited as Simmons, “Spanish Attempts”).
68. Kessell, Kiva, p. 374.
69. Kessell, “Upper Gila,” pp. 133-135. Wilson, Historical Profile, p. 8.
70. Metz, Fort Bliss, p. 9.
71. Wilson, Historical Profile, p. 8.
72. Alfred Barnaby Thomas (ed.), Forgotten Fron-
tiers: A Study of the Spanish Indian Policy of Don Juan Bautista de Anza, Governor of New Mexico (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932), pp. 7-13 (hereafter cited as Thomas, Forgotten
Frontiers).
73. Kessell, Kiva, p. 151. Although Pacheco was
withthe1847expedition,therequiredmaptorecord the event was either never produced or has been lost. 74. Myra Ellen Jenkins, Santa Fe, December 20, 1984,lettertotheAuthor(hereaftercitedasJenkins,
December 20).
75. Metz, Fort Bliss, p. 9; Thrapp, Mimbres
Apaches, pp. 16-17.
76. Beck and Hasse, Historical Atlas, p. 18. The
relationship of Joseph Vildosola to de Anza’s men- tor, Gabriel de Vildosola, if any, is unknown.
77. Simmons, “Spanish Attempts,” p. 5
78. Ibid.; Beck and Hasse, Historical Atlas p. 18. 79. Simmons,“SpanishAttempts,”p.14. Itwas
part of this route that Cooke followed in 1846 in blazing the wagon road to California. He struck the Janos road west of Cooke’s Spring and followed it in the great “Ox Bow” route to the ruins of San Bernar- dino before turning north towards Tucson.
80. Schaafsma, Images, pp. 15-16.
81. Simmons, “Spanish Attempts,” pp. 14-15.
82. JeanLaPorta(ed.),HistoryofLunaCounty
(Deming: Luna County Historical Society, Inc., 1978), p. 5 (hereafter cited as LaPorta, Luna County).
83. Simmons, “Spanish Attempts,” p. 16; Thomas, Forgotten Frontiers, p. 197 claimed that four-fifths of
the group was military.
84. Jenkins, December 20.
85. Florida is pronounced ‘Flohr-ree’-dah’.
86. Jenkins, April 25; Thomas, Forgotten Frontiers,
pp. 207-221. The reasons between calling the loca- tion Picacho or San Miguel are unknown. Since Martinez describes the water source as having little water, it is conceivable that he had entered Cooke’s Canyon from the southwest and was camped near present-day Frying Pan Springs.
87. LaPorta, Luna County, p. 5.
88. Simmons, “Spanish Attempts,” pp. 16-17.
89. Thomas, Forgotten Frontiers, pp. 247-256.
90. Ibid., pp. 273-277.
91. Ibid., pp. 360-361.
92. Simmons, Spanish Attempts, pp. 17-19.
93. Wilson, Historical Profile, p. 14.
94. Billy D. Walker, “Copper Genesis: The Early
Years of Santa Rita Del Cobre,” New Mexico His- torical Review, Vol. 54 (Jan., 1979), pp. 5-6 (hereafter cited as Walker, “Copper Genesis”).
95. Ibid., pp. 8-10; John Russell Bartlett, Personal Narrative ofExplorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua Con-
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